Panetta terminates secret prisons

The CIA is decommissioning the secret overseas prisons where top al Qaida suspects were subjected to interrogation methods.... the agency said Thursday.

In an e-mail to the agency's work force outlining current interrogation and detention policies, CIA Director Leon Panetta also announced that agreements with the private security firms guarding the so-called black sites will be "promptly terminated," and contractors no longer will be used to conduct interrogations.

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